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The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America 

byH.W. Brands

H. W. Brands brings William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache leader Geronimo into one narrative of the long war for control of the American continent. After the Civil War, Sherman applied military power to western expansion while Geronimo resisted confinement and the destruction of Apache autonomy. Their intersecting stories reveal contrasting ideas of nation, land, warfare, and freedom. Brands follows campaigns, negotiations, captivity, and public mythmaking, showing how the United States completed continental conquest through organized violence and how Indigenous resistance survived even when military defeat was presented as inevitable progress.

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780385547284